5 corporators
disqualified for
faking caste certificate

FIVE CORPORATORS recently elected to the Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation (BMC) have
been disqualified by the Caste Verification Committee
for submitting false caste certificates to
fight the recently held polls.
Those disqualified are Manmohan Chonkar
(ward no. 90) and Rashmi Pahudkar (ward no. 14)
from the Sena, Narayan Pawar (ward no. 158)
who won as independent
along with Nationalist Congress
Party's Harun Yusuf
Khan (ward no. 118) and
Shaikh Mohammad Hussain
of
Samajwadi Party (SP).
"The committee has written
to me after scrutinising
the certificates. I will inform
the commissioner
about it to take appropriate action," Deputy Municipal
Commissioner B.R. Marathe told HT.
"The municipal chief would intimate those
who are disqualified," he added.
Of the total 227 seats in the civic body, 50 per
cent are reserved for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled
Tribe and Other Backward Classes.
Another 26 corporators are yet to submit their
caste certificates - six from the Congress, two
each from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, SP
and Republican Party of India and two independents.
The committee has asked them to submit
the certificates by June 3.
The ruling alliance would be on shaky ground
if those asked to submit certificates are disqualified
as 12 are from the BJP-Shiv Sena combine.
In recent times, there has been a spurt of candidates
submitting false certificates.
In the last civic house, 15 corporators were dismissed
for six years for submitting fake caste certificates.

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